Introduction: Ideas and No Consequences -- Foreign Policy and the South -- Henry Clay and the Statecraft of Circumstance -- Message from MARs: The Social Politics of the New Right -- Prophet of the Heartland -- The Harmless Persuasion -- Neoconservatism and the Managerial Revolution -- The Case of George Will -- The Other Side of Modernism: James Burnham and His Legacy -- The Evil That Men Don't Do: Joe McCarthy and the American Right -- The Cult of Dr. King -- Who's In Charge Here? -- Imperial Conservatives? -- Inhospitable Neos: A Reply to Ernest Van den Haag -- As We Go Marching -- Rouge on a Corpse's Lips -- The Secret of the Twentieth Century -- Equality as a Political Weapon -- Beautiful Losers: The Failure of American Conservatism